Name: Ministry of health Type of organisation (professional, government, etc.) Trade union and professional organisation government Address: Bilkent yerleşkesi , Üniversiteler mah. Dumlupınar bulvarı 6001. Cad. No:9 Çankaya/Ankara 06800 Phone number: +90 (312) 585 1000, +90312 585 67 00-01 Fax: 0312 585 67 33 Contact person: E-mail: Website (s): https://saglik.gov.tr/
- To have the equivalence of the diploma and / or expertise certificates approved by the Ministry. - Not to have an obstacle to enforce the profession by law. - To know Turkish. (European language portfolio minimum B) - To have received a work permit and residence in Turkey, according to the relevant legislation. - To have compulsory professional liability insurance for physicians. In order to work as a specialist doctor, there is a list of instituitons which are recognised, and the list is being updated: http://www.tuk.saglik.gov.tr/TR,30656/taninmislik-listeleri-hakkinda-kar... Where else can we find more information?
http://www.ttb.org.tr/mevzuat/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...
http://www.tuk.saglik.gov.tr/TR,30657/yabanci-uyruklu-uzmanlik-egitimi-o...
There are no deadlines for applications.
There is an exam called STS which foreign doctors must pass in order to get their diploma equality recognised. This exam happens twice a year, on February and August. No interviews are made, this exam is a multiple choice exam, and the questions are in Turkish. Where else can we find more information?
https://www.osym.gov.tr/TR,8797/takvim.html https://www.osym.gov.tr/TR,8901/hakkinda.html
General practitioner and specialist are two medical degrees.
Every medical school graduate is considered a general practitioner and every doctor who finished a specialty programme is considered a specialist.
Name: Board of Specialty in Medicine
Address Tıpta Uzmanlık Kurulu Sekretaryası Bilkent yerleşkesi , Üniversiteler mah. Dumlupınar bulvarı 6001. Cad. No:9 Çankaya/Ankara 06800
Type of organisation (professional, government, etc.): government + elected members from turkish medical association Phone number: Fax:
Contact person:
E-mail: tuk@saglik.gov.tr
Website: http://www.tuk.saglik.gov.tr/
To begin training programme, a national exam must be passed and candidates are placed to their preferred specialty programme according to their grades in this exam. The exam is called TUS and is done twice a year.
More information is available here: https://www.osym.gov.tr/TR,8854/hakkinda.html
They are listed online for each exam, such as: https://www.osym.gov.tr/TR,15139/2018-tus-2-donem-kilavuz-ve-basvuru-bil... Please note that two different quota in opening positions, one for national doctors and other for foreign doctors.
Generally exams happen in August and January. But the deadlines change each year.
Where else can we find more information? https://www.osym.gov.tr/
After receiving a grade from TUS, they upload a list of preferences to the online system and then they are told which programme they have been placed in.
No, but the exam costs 350 turkish liras for early applications and 530 turkish liras for late applications.
And after you finish a specialty program successfully there is a fee of 767 liras that needs to payed.
Where else can we find more information
https://dokuman.osym.gov.tr/pdfdokuman/2018/TUSILKBAHAR/BasvuruKilavuzu1... http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2017/12/20171229M1-5.htm
Yes, but foreign trainees are not paid a regular salary. Foreign doctors are payed for only for night shifts and they get the ‘performace payment’ which is an extra payment Turkish doctors receive on top of their salary.
Salary of trainees may vary in between 4500 – 9000 turkish liras (including the night shifts and performance payments) . Overtime is not payed.
There is a single contract, trainees don’t have on-call times but they have night shifts. And night shifts are limited to maximum 10/a month by law.
Salary is not reduced in sick leaves or vacations but performance payments are reduced.
Each year trainees are evaluated and graded according to their theoretical, practical and academic skills. How this evaluation is done depends on the university and clinic. At the end a jury (of 5 professors) makes an interview and a finishing thesis is presented and defended. In surgical departments an operation is also performed in front of a jury.
Where else can we find more information? https://dosyamerkez.saglik.gov.tr/Eklenti/13222,karar2degisikpdf.pdf?0 http://www.tuk.saglik.gov.tr/TR,30339/dokumanlar.html
Mobility inside the country is possible with excuses. When the accreditation of the training center is failed, or when the trainee is responsible of taking care of a family member which has to be treated in a certain city or when the trainee is married to someone who works in a different city, then the trainee can apply for mobility under certain limitations. Conditions of such mobility changes often.
Current number of total trainees is not listed; but 6-8 thousand new trainee positions are opened twice a year. Where else can we find more information? http://www.tuk.saglik.gov.tr/
Post-training employment is guaranteed for Turkish citizens and is mandatory for 1,5-2 years. Where else can we find more information? http://www.tuk.saglik.gov.tr/
Yes there are accreditation procedures that include visits and interviews. .
Where else can we find more information? http://www.ttb.org.tr/uyek/
Yes, recertification are also being done regularly. Where else can we find more information? http://www.ttb.org.tr/uyek/
No same procedure apply to all foreign doctors, regardless of their country of origin.
No their specialists’ diploma will be recognised immediately but they will not receive a job at a state hospital automatically like the Turkish citizens do. They can work at private hospitals.
This can be possible when two universities make a protocol between themselves.
A Turkish citizen medical graduate will be placed to a state hospital within one or two months as a general practitioner. If he/she wants to start a specialty training then he/she needs to take the exam ‘TUS’ which happens twice a year. Training years change according to the specialty programme, and varies between 3-6 years. Following this training a doctor will become a specialist.
Where else can we find more information? http://www.tuk.saglik.gov.tr/
Yes it is.
We receive many foreign doctors and medical students from (mostly) neighbor countries.
There is an increasing number of young doctors immigrating to other countries.
Turkish Medical Association and its member medical chambers.
No.
